"Double-Boarder" Triple ?

I am thankful it's minor and very treatable but I think you'vce had enough experience with cancer .  As far as drama, you've probably had enough of that or you could keep up with the Kardashians .  Gosh, now you're gonna be on two boards!  I'm sure you will be as welcomed and helpful there as you are here on this board.  I know you'll keep us updated.

Thanks for sharing and you're in my prayers,

Jim

Mary N. said:

I have also been looking at

I have also been looking at the prostrate cancer forum because my husbands prostate cancer flared up again.  It has since gone down with the hormones and then I check this one for me.  Actually the guy who recommended Pabst was wrong.  It is Sierra Nevada.  Best wishes to you double dipper!

Their brewery is only 40 miles from us

Becky

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 said:

Not choosey

Becky,

Doc approved any grog 5% Al/Vol, or above !

Well darn, Max....

  I was hoping you would get a clean report and not have to deal with anything new. Sure glad it's in the early stage and treatable. You hang in there and let us know how things go. I see my Oncologist on the 30th, so I'm a bit anxious on what the next plan will be...if any. I'll post if anything new is decided. Prayers for you....Sue

i expect there are better ways to get your kicks than to send oncologists kids to college max, but to each their own brother;) I'm sure glad they got to it early and thinking back to the stories you told me about the last go around this should be a walk in the park, relatively speaking. Be well my friend

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 said:

Correct !

 

You are exactly right, Aaron. Compared to six months of r-abvd, one surgery, or a few radiation sessions should seem pretty mild. I told my adult kids, when they asked about treatments,

"Oh, this will be about like getting a flu shot at the drug store compared to the last cancer experience."

I has laproscopic removal of my gall bladder when I had my port removed several years ago. I recall that when I woke up in recovery the pain was vicious, and I was yelling for some meds. My thought was "This is much less pain than an open incision?  Liar !" The docs brag about less scarring. What they don't ordinarily mention is that you are hung with your head tilted down, and then your abdomen is pumped full of gas (I believe it is nitrogen, or some other inert gas), so that a camara can be moved around inside. No wonder it hurts ! You have been balooned up like the Michelin man !  I am not going to be on Baywatch any more, so a little scarring does not matter to me.

Removal of the prostate is actually pretty tricky, whether done by laproscopic or open incision, and would take about a week to start to recover from, but I need some catch-up time for old movies and TV classics anyway.  It is very tightly hidden between other organs. I read recently that until the late 1800s, anatomists did not even know that there was such a thing as a prostate; it was believed before then to be some sort of appendage to the bladder.

If I go radiation an issue is that it can take years thereafter to determine if there is relapse, because the radiation makes the PSA levels randomly drift up and down, and they become hard to interpret.  I might be gone from excessive bacon consumption by the time that resolves !

max

Max,

I wish you good recovery from this new disease.

Sten

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I'm sorry to hear that Max.  But, you are a fighter and I have no doubt this is just another blip on the screen and you will come through it just fine.   Sending you a big 'ol hug!